Does the project address short-term goals? Medium-term goals? Long-term goals? Does the project address different dimensions of wellbeing? Does the project create a plan of action for achieving these goals?

Sandstrom, Kent L., Kathryn J. Lively, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine. 2014. Symbols, Selves, and Social Reality: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology and Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199933754 Self and Social Wellbeing

Project Goal: This assignment asks you to reflect on what you have learned so far in this course in order to apply it to create your own self and social wellbeing plan. As outlined on page 1 of the syllabus, this assignment addresses the General Education Student Enrichment and Lifelong Learning Fulfillment (SELF) student learning objective 1, outcome 1A, and outcome 1B.

Assignment Instructions: Using a word processor, and saving your file to .doc or .pdf, complete the assignment addressing the assignment outline below. Do not include assignment instructions in your paper. This project is worth 100 points.

Assignment Outline: For this assignment you will write your own self and social wellbeing plan. A self and social wellbeing plan is a plan of action geared towards achieving overall personal wellbeing. Personal wellbeing implies a state of multidimensional health and personal satisfaction.

There are many dimensions to personal wellbeing, including physical, psychological, emotional, social, spiritual, and professional. Each dimension must be nurtured, developed, and maintained for optimal overall wellbeing.

Self and Social wellbeing plans are exactly what they sound like; they’re personalized plans to help you maintain health and wellbeing across the various dimensions listed above. You will want to choose the dimensions of wellbeing that are important to you (choose at least 3!) and create short-term (between 1 and 6 months), medium-term (between 6 months and 2 years), and long-term goals (2 years and above) for each.

The goals should be linked to show a process of obtaining overall wellbeing across all of the dimensions that you choose to include in your project.

So, for example, if you feel that the physical, psychological, social, and professional dimensions are important to your overall wellbeing, you will need to include a discussion of those along with a discussion of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals for each that are linked and that show you progressing towards achieving wellbeing in each of those dimensions. I

n addition to creating this self and social wellbeing plan you will also need to apply symbolic interactionist thought and theory to help explain your development of self and how it can help you going forward to both plan for and achieve your goals to improve your self and social wellbeing. Application must come from the textbook information learned throughout the term.

I want to see application throughout your writing. Do not stick in a few citations here and there, and think that is going to be enough. This is a term project and you need to be applying information from throughout the term throughout your paper. As per academic standards, application should ONLY appear in your body paragraphs. Do not apply information in your introduction and do not apply information in your conclusion.

Grading Criteria: You will be graded on the following criteria: Content (30 points)

• Does the project address short-term goals? Medium-term goals? Long-term goals?

• Does the project address different dimensions of wellbeing? • Does the project create a plan of action for achieving these goals?

• Does the project identify potential difficulties that may occur as well as present solutions for addressing those difficulties? Application of source material (30 points)

• Does the project apply information from the textbook?

• Does the project’s application include proper introduction and discussion of applied information?

• Does the project properly integrate symbolic interactionist theory to the development of a self and social wellbeing plan?

• Does the project introduce and discuss relevant terms and concepts that help explain symbolic interactionist theory and thought? Use of in-text citations and reference information in ASA format (20 points)

• Does the project properly cite information from the textbook in ASA format?

• Does the project have a reference page in correct ASA format listing the textbook? Writing Mechanics (20 points)

• Does the project begin with a thorough introduction paragraph?

• Does the project use proper spelling and grammar?

• Does the project use proper sentence and paragraph structure?

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